Update: while the state is still considering solving my region’s highway traffic problem by closing the highway, they now at least have enough data to know that their idea is terrible. The poll appears thorough and decisive, though pollsters did not record the percentage of responses that were shouted through tears.

People I’d like to spend more time with: the one in four polled who use the highway regularly but think closing it wouldn’t be an inconvenience. We should all be so plucky and unsinkable. “Aw, shucks! Don’t be blue, chum! Buck up! We’ll find our way home yet, and tomorrow that highway’ll be paved with gold, you’ll see! Bet your bottom dollar that tomorrow there’ll be sun!”

In a completely unrelated story, the city’s population increased for the second year in a row. And that was before all my friends got pregnant.